Storm 01 hid beside a building, watching as two agents face off, one of them looking feminine. The female agent skillfully tripped the other on the ground, she pulled off his helmet and stomp his face with the back of her gun, rendering him motionless.
"Oh my. Who's that?"
[I'm not supposed to say anything about other competitors except for their elimination count, or if they are alive. ]
"Come on, just a name and a face will do. What harm can I cause to them with that?" He questioned.
[You'll know who eliminated you, and might generate a petty hatred for them]
The female agent turned in Storm 01's direction and points her gun. She took some steps forward and shot a few times in the direction, making Storm 01 shift behind the wall.
"Should I engage?"
[Here's a face and the name of the agent.]
An image popped up before him. The name of the girl, Ada, is positioned just below the image. She was light-skinned with red curly hair that poured to her neck. Her eyes were blue like the ocean and she had some freckles on the bridge of her nose.
"Oh," Storm 01 exclaimed as he looked at the image. "Why the change of hea... system?"
[She asked for your info too. Since you already asked, I reveal it to both of you]
"So I ask it's no, she does and you comply?"
[She puts on more compelling talks than you do]
"You are an AI, you shouldn't be compelled by talks. Isn't that how you were programmed?"
[That is not how I was programmed.]
"Whatever. I'm going to fight this Ada girl."
Storm 01 pulled out his gun. As he turned to come out of his hiding, he got stopped by the clank of metal pressing to his head.
"Nice to finally meet you. Though not in person, but I'm glad we finally get to speak to each other," Ada said, before moving back a little to keep a distance between them.
"Do I know you?"
Ada shrugged. "I don't know, do you? All I know is we were in the same training camp to join the D.H. we got paired a couple of times, I've seen how pathetic you are. That's why I'm confused about why you got selected for the Z-syrup and thought to check you out."
Storm 01's jaw tightened. He felt a new surge of anger rising in him upon hearing he got placed in the same sentence as "pathetic" again.
"Damn you all!" He yelled and swiftly launched himself at her.
He used his gun and knocked hers out of her hand. He was so quick that she didn't see him coming. The saber emerged from his hand, but this time a little longer than it was when he was fighting his previous opponent.
He swung the saber at Ada who surprisingly caught up to his speed and leaped back to dodge the attack, which was only inches away from her neck. Immediately her feet touched the ground, she pulled out a smaller gun and shot at Storm 01. He puts the saber up to defy the attack.
"You're not as bad as you used to be, Storm 01. In fact, you are so much better I almost understand why you were selected."
Ada threw a chip at him, he puts away the saber and kicked it into a building. It exploded with impact to the wall, causing some rubble to drop on them.
She shot a few times at his face, but he surprisingly dodges them all. Storm 01 twisted Ada's hand, causing the gun to fall out of her grip. Pain was still a thing in this virtual world created by the Quantum Realm, but she wasn't affected. She used her free hand to pull out a dagger and attempted to cut Storm 01 but he blocks with the side of his hand. She drops the dagger and forcefully pulled her hand from his grip, catching the falling dagger. She tried to cut him in the stomach but Storm 01 kicked her back, creating some space between them.
Ada stood up straight and slid her dagger back into its cover. "Tell me, why'd you want to get selected for the last bullet? And don't tell me it's because you want to prove your worth. Because that's silly," she said, pacing around the field.
Storm 01 was raging. He's been trying his best since he was still a normal citizen in Zoda who lives with his father down at Winter Weir, he gets bullied all the time for the way he was built. And then his father sold him to Department H and mysteriously disappeared. As an agent of the most powerful agency in Winter Weir, he thought everything will be different, he thought he'll get to start over and meet people he could finally call friends, but he was wrong, he got treated the same way by the other agents, he lost every fight, ended up last in everything and almost got thrown out of D.H. Then he got selected as a candidate for the previously failed experiment D.H. has been running. Though some things didn't add up to him,
"... I'm not going to let all these opportunities life's been giving me go to waste!"
Before Ada could reply, Storm 01 was already in front of her. He launched a right hook at her jaw, she didn't have the time to defend or counter and the force behind the attack sent her crashing into a wall behind. She quickly stood up and charged at him too, throwing a series of punches at him which he easily evaded and block.
Storm 01 kicked her back into the wall, she hits it and came back with a punch but he kicks her back against the wall again. He punched her with a right fist and then a left and another right. He then kicked the side of her leg, making her to go down on one knee. He took out her gun and shot her twice. He was going for the third one, but she surprisingly dodged his attack. For a split second, they both stood still staring at each other before Ada got up on both feet and punched him in the face. She knocked the gun out of his hand and turned him around, his back now to the wall.
Ada kicked him to the wall. He hits it and came back quickly with his fist clenched but she immediately kicked him back against the wall. She punched him with a right fist, and then left, she was going for another right but he grabbed her hand and placed a grenade chip on her face with his right hand.
It exploded, and she went back, crashing into another building. Storm 01 fell to the ground trying to steady his heavy breathing.
"My right arm feels kinda heavy," he said, already recovered from the fast-paced breathing.
[Yes. It's the suit. The more damage, the heavier it becomes. It's like when you've been shot, it becomes difficult for you to move.]
Storm 01 stood up and dust the sand from his suit. "I've still got more fight in me," he stated, clenching his fist.
[Your healing powers are incredible. You should be utterly exhausted and you are not, thanks to it.]
"What healing powers?"
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